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A WIRED reporter built AI versions of editors Brian Barrett and Sophie Kleeman to test whether digital coworkers could improve workplace communication. The experiment produced occasional useful ideas, convincing imitation and repeated hallucinations—but also raised questions about privacy, accountability and the risks of treating software like a person.
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AI chatbots increasingly handle conversations about health, finances, relationships and personal fears, but many services retain or share that data. Privacy-focused options now range from contractual 0-data-retention plans to local AI tools and cryptographic safeguards, with important trade-offs involving cost, capability and how much users must trust the provider.
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Delhi Police has cautioned users against uploading personal s to unknown AI tools or clicking random links linked to trends. The warning says s may be misused for fake profiles, blackmail and cyber fraud, and directs people to call 1930 to report cyber fraud.
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US President Donald Trump said artificial intelligence should not sound “fake” and described it as “actually amazing” while addressing the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. He also called for the term “super intelligence” and said the country that wins the race will rule.
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Ro Khanna, the top Democrat on the US House China committee, has called for Washington and Beijing to establish shared AI safety rules, including inspections of leading laboratories and a ban on recursive self-improving systems, ahead of President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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British Columbia has sued OpenAI in California, alleging the company failed to report violent activity on ChatGPT by the person responsible for the Tumbler Ridge shooting. The province is seeking accountability and change, while separate lawsuits by affected families remain before US courts.
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Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has criticised efforts to train artificial intelligence systems to explore humanlike qualities, arguing that such methods could increase the danger posed by advanced models. His comments target Anthropic’s approach to AI consciousness and come amid fresh concerns about troubling behaviour from systems developed by leading technology companies.
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Scaleout Systems, a Swedish AI startup and Uppsala University spin-off in NATO’s DIANA accelerator, demonstrated an autonomous drone mission during BAE Systems Bofors’ ALMA Winter Demo 2026. The system used an onboard Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to identify, prioritise and engage an armoured engineering vehicle without external communications or human input beyond launch.
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A 3-person Hacktron AI team combined 2 vulnerabilities beginning with a HEIF upload on OpenAI’s community forum. The chain reached logged-in OpenAI employee accounts for ChatGPT and Codex in under 72 hours, leading OpenAI to pay the researchers $6,500 for their report.
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A man from Zhejiang province has taken Beijing Chuntian Zhiyun Technology to court after following a chatbot’s advice on his mother’s burial date and funeral rituals. He is seeking an apology and compensation, while the company argues that its service did not infringe his rights and its terms limit AI content to reference use.
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US President Donald Trump says he plans to appoint an artificial intelligence adviser, or “AI tsar”, and create an “AI force”. He has offered no details on how either initiative would work, while insisting that his administration will support the industry and rely on existing justice systems to address wrongdoing.
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A cascade of resignations, hacked systems and warnings about human extinction has pushed AI safety concerns to the top of the industry agenda. Leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google’s DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI have backed greater outside scrutiny, even as political and investor pressure continues to drive rapid development.
